πππ’π⚾✨ Philly Phashionista ✨⚾ππ’ππ
Breaking another fanart drought with another green bird: Phyllis Phanatic! ✨⚾ππ’
She's a rare character who occasionally appears during The Phanatic's skits. She's usually, if not always, romantically paired with him during these events, but in his official bio, Phyllis is just stated as his best friend. π€ That's...interesting. π
I've seen her referred to as "Phiona" in multiple online spaces, but I'm not sure where this originated. I've been digging around for info and just about every reliable source I've seen, has called her Phyllis; even one suggesting this was her name as far back to the early 90's...where she's also outwardly labeled as a girlfriend. π
And there's "Mrs. Phanatic", a name that was said by one of the play-by-play announcers, a couple of times or so, when another unrelated blonde Phanatic was involved in a skit. She too was given the love interest role at times...and...black hair? I...can't tell if this is supposed to be an entirely different character, or someone got Phyllis' name wrong. π€·πΎ♀️ The Phanatic was never married, so, it's definitely not his wife...Maybe there were brief moments where they thought about changing her up...or...her character hasn't been solidified. She seems to only exist whenever they need her to. ππ I guess the concept of her changes to suit whatever amusing thing is going on.
Something else I'm not sure about is if I remember seeing her during my earlier mascot-interest days. I remember Phoebe, The Phanatic's mom, who appears more often in comparison. She's completely established and has a recognizable outfit. With how rare and inconsistent Phyllis seems to be, I can't tell if I saw her or The Phanatic somewhat resembling her in one of his skits, 'cause that happens too. π
Either way, I recognize her now! Heh, she's the other part of the reason I got back into mascots again. It was sparked after they parodied that uh...CEO incident last year. π«£ I think because of how viral that skit went, they brought her back for a fake engagement based on The Bachelor. π
I've been working on this piece since late October. It took so long because I needed to settle on a design post for Phyllis first and wanted to release both posts at once. π She doesn't have her own separate costume; if she ever did, she doesn't now. She's quite literally any extra Phanatic in a wig, so, there were some things I wanted to try out to make her more distinct from him. For the sake of my headcanons, I went with females being more yellow while males are more of a richer green to make it more reflective of how birds tend to be in real life. I also decided on females having thinner eyelashes, smaller tails, and beaks / snouts. And the eyebrows acting more like an extension of their hair at times. I'm sure there are more things I'm going to play around with when it comes to their species, like the positioning of the eyes...and where the knee joints are supposed to be. π€
Most of the alternative outfits are real ones she's worn over the years. I think it's safe to say that the checkered dress used to be her standard outfit. It later got changed to something that resembles the team's powder blue uniforms for her shirt and white skirt. Sometimes a hat, sometimes a headband. The City Connect one at the end is something I got curious about. :3c
I seriously do wonder what their deal is, officially. Like, I wonder if the ones in charge of the skits keep this aspect so loose because they don't want to overcomplicate things. Having The Phanatic in a dedicated relationship is very likely to wipe out a good chunk of his antics. π He's been the way he is for almost fifty years. Introducing this kinda change might be hard to pull off without making people upset...π¬π€·πΎ♀️
I've been thinking about creating an AU, that's pretty much built around their relationship, to explain what's going on with them, why it's so odd, what their family backgrounds look like and even the lives of other mascots. But I dunno...there's so many things I'm trying to do. ┐(´γΌ｀)┌
If I draw these characters long enough, the ideas I had will seep through in some way.
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